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Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras

Benn Jordan explains how Flock Safety's license plate cameras log and share vehicle locations, and explores how adversarial AI can defeat them. It covers weak security and the surveillance risks of private police-camera networks.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN treats it as the go-to overview of Flock's problems, and cites it in nearly every Flock thread.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Benn Jordan
Topic
license plate surveillance
Format
explainer
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
6
HN mentions in dataset
12
Recommendation years in dataset
2025–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • [VIDEO] Benn Jordan did a great video on this. People on here regularly bash the EU's GDPR, but blocking this kind of corporate-driven police state is a heavy point in its favor.

    athrowaway3z on Hacker News · 2025-09
    In Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department's Use of Flock Safety

  • Funny you should mention this. Benn Jordan, on the heels of his Flock camera research, reverse engineered a non-flock ALRP unit and built his own system using some off the shelf parts, a tablet, and 3D printer. He did it mostly as an experiment but …

    dmschulman on Hacker News · 2026-05
    In The FBI Wants 'Near Real-Time' Access to US License Plate Readers

  • For a video overview of this stuff: “Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras”, Benn Jordan [36min, 1.7m views, 9d ago] [VIDEO]

    Barbing on Hacker News · 2025-09
    In Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department's Use of Flock Safety

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